NPM 2010 – Spine Label Poetry

I made a poem called “My Heart is Like a Zoo” by using picture book titles (they’re very colorful) and lining up the spines. Like the Newspaper Blackout poetry, Spine Label Poetry is a form of found poetry. Found poetry is using words, phrases and titles from other sources to create poems. I love working with found poetry. It’s fun and let’s me be creative and imaginative.

My heart is like a zoo
planting a rainbow,
lawn to lawn,
down by the cool of the pool.

One rainy day
a tree is growing,
anything but typical,
plants without seeds,
a mirror to nature,
all the world.